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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Responsibilities of the first Bull Run. (search)
entions meeting me on a hill which commanded a general view of the field, and proceeding farther west, where he saw a Federal column, which a Confederate squadron charged and put to flight. But the captain in command of this squadron Captain John F. Lay. See Official Records, II., 573.-editors. says in his report that the column seen was a party of our troops. Mr. Davis also dilates on the suffering of our troops for want of supplies and camp equipage, and on his efforts to have them pror own numbers. But they were too weak to make a; serious impression on an army, although a defeated one. At twenty minutes before 5, when the retreat of the enemy toward Centreville began, I sent orders to Brigadier-General Bonham by Lieutenant-Colonel Lay, of his staff, who happened to be with me, to march with his own and Longstreet's brigade (which were nearest Bull Run and the Stone Bridge), by the quickest route to the turnpike, and form them across it to intercept the retreat of the F